The master thesis focuses on the topic of authorship from a reflectional, critical perspective. It discusses the origins and ideological/philosophical background of autonomous authorship concept and points out its various attributes, assumptions and consequences, which govern current ideas related to knowledge production and its acceptance in academia as well as in wider society. The author will choose relevant theoretical background and root the arguments within it. The text will show how different authors challenge the individualistic demand on publication productivity by emphasizing collective effort that is intentionally or unintentionally present in hole process of (academic) text production. Various discourses may be illustrated upon the analysis of current Masaryk University documents. Bibliography: Anon. 2008. “2f. Ian Cook et Al.” Writing Collaboration. Retrieved June 23, 2021 (https://writingcollaboration.wordpress.com/1-introduction/1f-ian-cook-et-al/). Butler, Judith. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge. Foucault, Michel. 1995. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 2nd Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books. Fredriksson, Martin. 2018. “Authors, Inventors and Entrepreneurs: Intellectual Property and Actors of Extraction.” Open Cultural Studies 2(1):319–29. doi: 10.1515/culture-2018-0029. Sibley, David. 1995. Geographies of Exclusion: Society and Difference in the West. London ; Routledge: New York. Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. 2012. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples.